Herbarium specimen: Circaea alpina

Taxon:	Onagraceae: Circaea alpina L. ("Alpine Enchanter's-nightshade") named by James Groves
Collected by:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Collection date:	13/7/1887
Locality:	Great Britain, VC36 Herefordshire, Moccas, SO34
Institution:	Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI)
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ocrnotes:	Circcea lutetiana, L., intermedia. Wood, Moccas, Herefordshire, 13th July, 1887.--Augustin Ley. In the opinion of Mr. James Groves this " belongs rather to C. alpina. The fruit resembles lutetiana in shape, but there are well developed bracteoles, and the petioles are distinctly winged." New County record.
Filing note:	BEC Report 1887

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	taxon	locality	collectors		date	institution
+	Epilobium roseum	GB, VC23 Oxfordshire, Oxford	George Claridge Druce		1886	BSBI
+	Epilobium montanum x roseum = E. x mutabile	GB, VC37 Worcestershire, Malvern Link	Richard Francis Towndrow			BSBI
+	Epilobium tetragonum	GB, VC22 Berkshire, Burghfield	George Claridge Druce			BSBI
+	Epilobium montanum x obscurum = E. x aggregatum	GB, VC57 Derbyshire, Shirley	William Richardson Linton		12/7/1887	BSBI
+	Epilobium obscurum	GB, VC39 Staffordshire, Biddulph	William Hunt Painter		9/1887	BSBI
+	Circaea alpina var. intermedia	GB, VC57 Derbyshire, Shirley	William Richardson Linton		26/7/1887	BSBI
+	Oenanthe pimpinelloides	GB, VC3 South Devon, Undercliff	James Cosmo Melvill		7/1887	BSBI
+	Aethusa cynapium	GB, VC23 Oxfordshire, Marston	George Claridge Druce		23/8/1887	BSBI
+	Adoxa moschatellina	GB, VC57 Derbyshire, Via Gellia	William Henry Purchas		6/1887	BSBI
+	Aster novi-belgii	GB, VC29 Cambridgeshire, New Bedford River	Alfred Fryer			BSBI

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